Douglas J. Henderson PhD ‘61

Douglas Henderson is to receive an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Science of the Ukraine in recognition of his research and his efforts fostering interaction between Ukrainian and US scientists.

He graduated from the Physics Department at the University of Utah in 1961 and taught at the University of Idaho, Arizona State University, and the University of Waterloo in Canada. The bulk of his career was spent with the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose where he was located for 26 years. The last 2 years were spent on leave at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. After retiring from IBM, he has been with the Chemistry Department of BYU. He has now retired from teaching but is active in research.